[Plate 53.] 



I. THE SPOTTED PLEIONE. 



( PLEIONE MACULATA.) 



II. THE BOTTLE PLEIONE. 



(PLEIONE LAGENARIA.) 



Terrestrial Alpine Herbaceous Plants, from Northern India, belonging to the Natural 



Order of Orchids. 



Specific Characters. 



I. THE SPOTTED PLEIONE. — Pseudobulbs whole-coloured, short, thick, rounded, narrowed at the base. Bract 

 short, inflated, roundish, hooded. Sepals and petals oval, acute. Lip rounded, entire, emarginate, with seven 

 crested lines. 



Gomphostylis Candida : Wallich ic. ined. Coelogyne rnaculata : Lindl. in Wallich, Plant. As. rariores, i., 45, t. 53. 



II. THE BOTTLE PLEIONE.— Pseudobulbs flask-shaped, clouded. Bract hooded, acute, very much tapering to 

 the base. Sepals and petals linear -lanceolate, acuminate. Lip rounded, entire, emarginate, with five 

 crested lines. 



THESE beautiful plants are from the Alps of India. The first was found by Dr. 

 Wallich's collectors on rocks and the trunks of trees, among- moss, on the Khasija 

 Mountains. Mr. Thomas Lobb found both in such, places, and sent them to Messrs. 

 Veitch, to whom we are indebted for specimens. The Khasija name, according- to Dr. 

 Wallich, is Jtia-ChaJcarpcite. 



The Spotted Pleione has long been known to botanists as a species belonging to that 

 Alpine group of so-called Coelogynes, of which C. Wallichiana is the best known example, 

 and to which the Epidendrum pracox and humile of Smith are also assigned. They 

 certainly resemble greatly the genus Coelogyne, to which one of us, many years since, 

 reduced them, but they differ in certain points, to which we shall advert when we proceed 

 to figure Pleione humilis, another charming species, of which Messrs. Veitch have also 

 obtained possession. 



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